Barbara Smith Conrad

A week of celebration for the great mezzo where her career was launched against all odds

"...like for them a half-century ago, ask Barbara Smith Conrad. She lived it. And right here in our town...."

Jan. 30, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

William Basinski: “My Work Had to Disintegrate in Front of My Face Before It Could Be Really Appreciated"

Texas-raised avant-garde composer drones eternal at Oblivion Access

"...William BasinskiElysium, Sunday 15, 5-9pm Billed with: Robert Aiki, Aubrey..."

May 6, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Liquid Proposition

Austin's Water Quality Protection Lands are few and far between: can they do the job they are meant to do?

"...on this property, so watch where you step," says William Conrad, as he climbs out of the white Ford..."

July 6, 2001 News Feature by Dan Oko

Swingle All the Way!

Stritch, Caruso deliver hit holiday cabaret from Birdland

"...BS: Oh, there were so many. I remember Andy Williams, you know. I must have been really, really small,..."

Dec. 20, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Bigger Than the Sky

Despite some bright spots in this woefully earnest modern romance, Bigger Than the Sky is awash in the obvious and sports a cloying adulation of theatre folk.

"...sonorously catty pronouncements – Rex Reed as realized by William Conrad – but for the most part Bigger Than..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sorry, Wrong Number

"...Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Leif Erickson and William Conrad. In this taut thriller, Barbara Stanwyck plays a..."

June 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Promotion

Forgettably bland, this comic film features Seann William Scott and John C. Reilly vying for the same job promotion.

"...Directed by: Steve Conrad. Starring: Seann William Scott, John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer,..."

June 13, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...My Fellow Americans, Scream, The Crucible, Sling Blade, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Employee of the Month

Assorted workers vie for the coveted title of "Employee of the Month."

"...Dax Shepard, Efren Ramirez, Tim Bagley, Andy Dick, Harland Williams and Brian George. Harold & Kumar Go to White..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Core

"...comes up with something very close to one of William M. Gaines’ old Weird Science comics from the Fifties...."

March 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wag the Dog

"...presidential assistant, Winifred Ames (Heche), calls professional political fixer Conrad Brean (De Niro) to a summit deep in the..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Invasion of the Lit Flix

Literary Classics Rush the Screen

"...William Shakespeare leads the pack with at least five film..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Grove Matters

Council kicks the Shoal Creek Tract Case to October

"...took a break for one proclamation, in honor of William “Willy” Conrad, retiring after 16 years from Austin Water’s..."

Aug. 14, 2015 News Post by Michael King

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...with Bazan's thoughtful, literate lyrics. – Melanie Haupt TONY CONRAD10pm, Central Presbyterian Church Tony Conrad helped pioneer minimalism in..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...35mm) Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. Directed by Michael..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Love Story (Within a Love Story)

For Marie Losier, no telling where 'filmmaker' ends and 'friend' begins

"...as friends," she says of films with avant-artists Tony Conrad, Guy Maddin, and the Kuchar brothers. "Just like the..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...Sevigny, Jean Smart, Malcolm McDowell, Cybill Shepherd, Billy Dee Williams (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Short Cuts

Say hello to two Patric(k)s, and goodbye to some recently departed film greats.

"...Reaper goes, in case you hadn't noticed: Coburn, cinematographer Conrad L. Hall, director George Roy Hill, actor Kenneth Tobey,..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...director Peter Weir, the man who also guided Robin Williams' successful dramatic turn in Dead Poets Society. (June 5)..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...William Meadows, Constellation/Illumination..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...Strictly Ballroom's Australian director Baz Luhrmann transplants William Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet to contemporary Florida and..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gift Guide Grab Bag

An array of extravagance to geek out on

"...play in 1962 as the Houston Colt .45s after William Neder won a "name the team" contest. The Colt..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Screens Feature by Mark Fagan

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...way or another. Cast: Allison Tolman, Sophie Reid, JoBeth Williams, Luis Bordonada, Larry Jack Dotson, Butch Hancock, Bob Livingston,..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Council: For the Birds

Taking on bullhooks, FFF Fest, and more

"...paying for the land indirectly through higher land prices. William Con­rad, the AW staffer patiently explaining the project, had..."

Aug. 14, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Life

Junkie chic achieves the ultimate high

"...behind the sign's metaphoric quiver of arrows. Milton, Beethoven, William Blake, Mark Twain, Gen. George Custer, Joseph Conrad, Toulouse-Lautrec,..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW 2010 Film Awards

Audience, jury, and special awards

"...Runner-up: "The Big Bends" (D: Jason William Marlow) Time Warner Cable & Ovation Young Filmmaker Scholarship..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature

SXSW Film Awards Announced

The envelope, please

"...(D: Craig Elrod) Runner-up: “The Big Bends” (D: Jason William Marlow)..."

March 16, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

What Can a Century Tell Us?

Looking at two art exhibitions that both survey 100 years of imagery, the more things change ...

"...represented by a surprisingly artful image by astronaut Pete Conrad of his Apollo 12 colleague Alan Bean collecting lunar..."

July 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TCB

It may be in Chicago, but there's something distinctly Austin about Lollapalooza 2005.

"...The Montreal ensemble started by transplanted Texans Win and William Butler has no further use for the "Next Big..."

July 29, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...manuscripts and typescripts, including Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India,..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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